B major · Camelot 1B · 92 BPM
Still D.R.E.
by Dr. Dre
- 92
- BPM
- B major
- Key
- 1B
- Camelot
- 83
- Danceability
- 16
- Acousticness
A single that had debuted at number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999 climbed all the way to number 23 when it re-entered the chart in 2022. "Still D.R.E." by Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg, had first been released on September 28, 1999, as the lead single from the album 2001, and reached number 6 in the United Kingdom. Twenty-three years after its release, the song closed the Super Bowl LVI halftime show on February 13, 2022, performed alongside Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent, with Anderson .Paak on drums.
The track came about after Dre had gone seven years without releasing an album following 1992's The Chronic. Jimmy Iovine vetoed Dre's plan to lead with "The Next Episode", feeling the album needed something emerging from a different direction, so the song was created during a late-night session at A&M Studios. Dre recruited Jay-Z to ghostwrite lyrics for the comeback single. When Jay-Z's first attempt focused on diamonds and Bentleys, Dre pushed him to try again, and twenty minutes later the rapper returned with what Dre described to Blaze magazine as hard, around-the-way L.A. material. Snoop Dogg later said on The Breakfast Club that Jay-Z wrote the whole song. Scott Storch came up with the keyboard melody, Mel-Man added the drum patterns, and Dre made further adjustments. It was the final song written and recorded for 2001.
Still D.R.E. runs at 92 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.61 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 652 ms. It is in B major, Camelot 1B, which shares its notes with Ab minor and mixes cleanly with E major and F# major.
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